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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"sex industry"”.
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Regulation of the Sex Industry from a Criminal Law Perspective
This thesis examines the sex industry as a whole with the intention of establishing that prostitution should not be marginalised but integrated within the criminal law and regulated as other Sexual Entertainment Venues. I first establish a framework of analysis needed to illuminate the constraints …
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Filipino Women's Migration to Japan's Sex Industry: A Case of Transnational Gender Subjection
… out the complex picture of international sex traffic, this study raises questions not only about the contemporary discourse of international sex traffic, but also about the analytical framework of sex work. It recommends further investigation should be done on international sex traffic …
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A STUDY ON THE RECOVERY PROCESS FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE EXITED THE SEX INDUSTRY
… are different reasons why women enter the sex industry; many of them were sexually abused as children and have been psychologically deceived, which is indicative of their vulnerable state and complex needs. Today, many studies show that the amount of women involved in sex work continues to …
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Semi-supervised classification of social media posts : identifying sex-industry posts to enable better support for those experiencing sex-trafficking
… is both helpful and harmful to the work against sex trafficking. On one hand, social workers carefully use social media to support individuals experiencing sex trafficking. On the other hand, traffickers use social media to groom and recruit individuals into trafficking situations. Additionally, …
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The politics of regulation and the South African sex industry : an interest group analysis of power and civic participation in public policy on adult commercial sex work
… in public consultations on adult commercial sex work1 and legal reforms in South Africa. It determines the interests, the strategies and tactics2 employed, as well as power relations between interest groups in the social policy process as led by the South African Law Reform Commission …
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The sexual marketing of eastern european women through internet pornography
Since the split of the Soviet Union, sexuality in Eastern Europe has developed a new direction in the growth of the sex industry on the Internet. Pornographic images of Eastern European women are internationally available through the Internet. This research analyzes how Russian and Ukrainian women …
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Erotic Enterprises: An Ethnography of Risk and Opportunity for Female Sex Workers in Celtic Tiger Ireland.
This is an ethnographic account of female sexual labour at the height of the Celtic Tiger, when sex like other consumables saw an insatiable increase in demand. Like other industries, the sex industry has relatively privileged and exploitative positions for its workers, and like other service …
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The Labour of Paying for Education: An Exploration of Student Sex Work in Canada
… a small body of research that examines student sex work in a Canadian context. By drawing on data gathered from semi-structured qualitative interviews with ten student sex workers, this thesis seeks to gain a nuanced understanding of students' experiences with sex work in Canada, and their use …
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Women who buy sex in Australia: From social representations to lived experiences
Women who buy sex in Australia: From social representations to lived experiences The idea of women buying sex has the potential to disrupt and challenge highly gendered debate about the sex industry and social narrative about female sexual agency. Until now there is very little empirical evidence …
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“It’s Complex:” Student Sex Workers Constructing Their Lives in the 21st Century A Modified Qualitative Content Analysis
… in the United States who work in the sex industry while in undergraduate or graduate school are in the unique position of straddling between the two seemingly disparate worlds of academia and the sex industry. This position has the potential to put them at greater risk of isolation due …
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Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America
The adult entertainment industry as modern mankind knows it began to from at the end of the Victorian age, a time where America also happened to become a major international power for the first time. The history of the adult entertainment industries from 1900 till today can almost be seen as a …
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Identities of difference in the contemporary city: a spatial and policy analysis of men who sell sex in metropolitan Sydney
… focuses on one subculture identity—men who sell sex (MWSS). In Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), where the sex industry is decriminalised, private sex work and MWSS are considered identities of difference with high conflict rates. Through policy reviews, spatial mapping, and in-depth interviews with …
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Labor violations and discrimination in the Clark County outcall entertainment industry
Researchers who insist that sexual exploitation is intrinsic to sex work have deflected attention from two key issues facing sex workers: labor violations and prejudice. The purpose of this study is to investigate unethical labor practices and institutional sexism, racism, and classism in the Clark …
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Prostitution as the exploitation of women and a violation of women’s human rights
… women, but also penalize the demand for female sexual labor, which is considered the primary force behind the sex industry.
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Prostitutes' Understanding of God
… December 29, 2001. The thirteen interviewed sexual workers (one interview tape was damaged) belonged to the Asociacion Pro Defensa de la Mujer (Association Pro Defense of Women), which has four hundred and fifty members, all sexual workers. The recorded interviews were done at the office of …
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Becoming a human trafficker: qualitatively examining social learning theory and social opportunity structure among Bulgarian human traffickers
Sexual exploitation is a human rights violation sustained by sophisticated organized crime syndicates and a lucrative sex industry. In Europe, research on human traffickers indicates that people choose to become a trafficker due to the juxtaposition of widespread poverty and poor economic …
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A qualitative exploration of the experiences of women involved in sex work
… explores lived experiences of women involved in sex work and is comprised of three parts: a literature review, research paper, and critical appraisal. The literature review is a meta-synthesis of the ways women involved in sex work cope with the associated stigma. It synthesised findings from 14 …
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Doing what ‘Works Best’: Exploring the Narratives of Mothers who Work as Strippers
… identities and practices as both mothers and sex workers?’. This thesis is informed by feminist methodologies and a broad array of literatures on social reproduction, social surveillance of mothering practices, the intensification of mothering, women working in the sex industry, and …
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Navigating the criminalisation-decriminalisation dilemma in sex work: an analysis of its affects on human rights and proposals for their safeguard
… examine how certain legal systems deal with both sex workers and those involved in the sex trade. It will demonstrate that several legal systems have failed to achieve their intended goals of protecting the rights of ‘everyone' and to establish a method to effectively address sex work. The ongoing …
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